2025-02-24¶

Preemptive observability¶

An interesting take: check out Digma Preemptive Observability, a 3 min video up on YouTube to learn more how to detect issues in pre-prod.

OTel metadata best practices¶

Recommended read: OpenTelemetry resource attributes: Best practices for Services attributes by the one and only Michele Mancioppi of Dash0.

Odigos: eBPF & OpenTelemetry¶

Odigos: Simplifying Observability in Distributed Systems by George Souza Farias is a hands-on deep dive on how Odigos leverages eBPF and OpenTelemetry.

Lambda for extending OSI¶

Watch this 9 min YouTube video from Jagadish Kumar to learn how to extend the open-source backed telemetry pipeline in AWS: AWS Lambda as a processor in OpenSearch Ingestion Pipelines.

OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0¶

Via the official OpenTelemetry blog: read Announcing the OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 by Juliano Costa (Datadog).

Observability 2025¶

Thanks Andrew Mallaband for sharing Observability 2025: Start With a Strategy for Improvement.

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